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Bella Agency in NYC

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Cristina visits the Bella Agency. This is a boutique agency in NYC representing Men and Women in Fashion and Commercial Print. Owner Ray Volant takes us on a tour of his agency and we talk to models about how they feel about being a "Bella Model".

You can learn more about the Bella Agency at www.bellaagency.com.

Cristina asks a Bella Model named Anna how she ened up at Bella:

I met a couple girls who are with Bella, and they really recommended Bella. They are a newer agency, but they were with Ford Models, so they have all the experience. I love them, they are great.

Ciara had this to say about being with the Bella Agency:

At Bella you don't have to book an appointment to see your booker. They are great, everyone is always really sweet and really nice.

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Cristina: I am heading over to the Bella Agency where we are going to talk to Ray Volant.

Cristina: All right, we are here.

Ray Volant: Here at Bella Agency, we actually have a couple divisions. We have commercial print, men and women, and we have a division of catalogue and beauty, men and women. And if you go over here, you know, in this area right here we have some of the ads that our models have done. For example, this is the Polo jeans, actually Polo G.I.V.E. ad. And then here we have, you know, just different ads again, you know, Patsy Brown doing more of a lifestyle ad for core print.

Cristina: So, show me around all of it.

Ray Volant: Sure, as you walk in…this is our booking room right here, and we have two boards. We have the lifestyle women’s board right here, and the lifestyle men’s board right here. And what it means is actually it is more, you know, product and advertising like you just saw the Advil or the Aquafresh Ad. So, over here we have more of men and women, more catalogue and beauty, you know, where height is important.

Cristina: So, how did you end up here at Bella?

Anna (Commercial Print Model): I met a couple of girls who are with Bella as well, and they really recommended them. They were like “You definitely have to go with them.” You know, they are a newer agency, but they came from Ford, so they have all the experience, and I love them. They are great actually.

Cristina: So what do you think about that whole 40 Plus idea. I mean it’s exciting, right?

Maryellen (40 plus Model): It is, it is! It is great! And you know what, 40 is not what it used to be.

Cristina: I know!

Maryellen (40 plus Model): I know we all know that. You know, when we were little kids, we used to like play dress up. Now I am a big kid playing dress up!.

Cristina: What I have found is Ray has a really nice way of making it feel like a family here.

Ciara (Fashion Model): Yeah!

Cristina: And I always knew when I came into the door, I would see a smiling face, he would be happy to see me and have a hug, you know, and you do not get a lot of that with other modeling agencies.

Model: I know…It is like you have to book an appointment to see your booker!…

Cristina: Exactly.

Ciara (Fashion Model): Yeah! They are great. Like everyone is always really sweet and really nice.

Cristina: That is what I love about Bella, because when I would go into castings, everybody was always gushing about them.

Dorian (Fashion Model): Yeah! Same here. Right, as soon as I got into town that is what people were saying, when I started going in to castings, they would say what agency are you with. Oh Bella, and they were like “Oh my God!”

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